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Oral History Interview with Sheila Florence, January 20, 2001. Interview K-0544. Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007) in the Southern Oral History Program Collection, Southern Historical Collection, Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

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BOB GILGOR:

Did you use new books or used books at Northside?

SHEILA FLORENCE:

Used books. We always had used books.

BOB GILGOR:

Where did they come from?

SHEILA FLORENCE:

Came from the white schools.

BOB GILGOR:

They were, how they?

SHEILA FLORENCE:

When we got our books, the teacher would put "good, bad, or
poor condition." A lot of them was like, bare and poor
conditions.

BOB GILGOR:

So they were in bad condition?

SHEILA FLORENCE:

It depends what grade you were in, and how much the other people had
used the books. I had forgot about that.

BOB GILGOR:

Were there pages missing?

SHEILA FLORENCE:

Sometimes, and then you'd have to try to find another book with all the
pages. But thinking back, I had forgot about that we had used used
books.

BOB GILGOR:

Are there any other things that you remember about Northside?

SHEILA FLORENCE:

Um, I do remember we had the heating. Sometimes we'd be sitting in there
with our coats on cause we'd be cold and the heat was radiator, radiator
heat, I remember that.

BOB GILGOR:

Sometimes it wouldn't work?

SHEILA FLORENCE:

Sometimes it would break down. Or, when it's cold cold, it didn't get
warm enough, you'd have to keep your coat on.